WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.? As Congress gets into its stride, and old and new members exchange opinions, it is becoming apparenti v/ to observers on Capitol Hill that one of the major themes of this session will be the effort- to curtail the personal authority of the Pre sident. This effort will be Joined in by members of both parties, including sincere followers of Mr. Roosevelt.. It will not be an effort to prevent his renomination in 1940. It will be an effort* to reassert' the auth ority of Congress in its Const itu ' tional sphere of action. How far this movement will get is. of course, problematical. Con gress surrendered many of its Con stitutional .powers to the Presi dent at' th? beginning of his first term, on the theory that the eco nomic emergency could not be dealt wit'h in any other way than by putting one man^in charge. . Some of the actions of Congress ?were held to be beyond its power, by Supreme Court decisions in the N. R. A. and A. A. A. cases; tihey delegated power to make orders and regulations which had the force of law, and only Congress may enact laws. Among the unlimited powers which the President still has un der the emergency legislation are these: Powers of President He can devalue the dollar still further at' any time he so chooses. He Cfin Issue three billion dol lars in paper money with no gold reserve behind it. He can decree the free and un limited coinage of silver, and fix the ratio of the silver dollar to gold at any proportion he sees fit. He can prescribe the regula tions under which gold can be owned, traded in, held or exported. He can operate a "stabilization fund" of two billion dollars in complete secrecy, being account able to nobody for its operatiions. . He can suspend trading on any stock exchange for a period of ninety days. He can raise or lower by as much as 50 percent any tariff im posed. __hy the United Steles on goods imported from any nation which enters into a trade agree ment with this country. He can spend practically at his own discretion funds for relief, farm benefits and other similar projects, totalling more than all previous Presidents lumped to gether have ever been authorized ? wi spend There' have Iwen some talk of the possibility that the President would voluntarily relinquish some ,ol' those broad powers.- - * Some plan .for turning rellet back to the slates maybe put for ward. In any event- the expectation Is that the new appropriations for relief will be rigidly apportioned for specific purposes. To Vote On Hopkins There are expected to be loud echoes of the W. P. A. situation on the floor of the Senate when -the question of the confirmation of Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce conies up for discus sion. That' he will be confirmed is generally belisv.ed. It takes only a majority of the Senate to con firm a Cabinet officer, and at most the members of the Cabinet are merely the President's clerks, em ployed to run Our executive de partments according to his Ideas. Id the case of t